News Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all

[Admin]

A mixup at Nvidia resulted in someone receiving an RTX 5080 graphics card with the words ‘RTX 5090’ etched on the cooler.

Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all : Read more

 

[cp0x]

This is normal when a new release happens: The first trickle of cards that hit retail are often the ones being built pretty much by hand in small quantities by the manufacturers as they perfect their build and automation processes. Sometimes you'll get beta software on the cards, and sometimes you even get pre-prod hardware (beta versions of the chips) as the manufacturers clear their benches. It's one of the reasons why I usually wait a few months before considering buying a newly released GPU, because I've gotten some pre-prod hardware in the past, and those usually need more work over their lifetimes to keep them running. (Although to be fair, I've still had good experiences overall, even with the beta hardware. It's the hand-built aspects that tend to need to get repaired over time, e.g. the pads, the grease, ...)

 

[King_V]

Kinda neat - and I'm hoping that a simple weighing of the card would be enough to determine which cooler it has.

 

[The Beav]

Can't believe anyone buys founders editions after what they did with the 30 series... All Ti versions had the same cooling as regular versions, my 3080 ti ran at 110°C and being throttled and Nvidia kept saying that's within spec.... Even tho the 3080, 3070, and 3090 all ran much cooler. Oh and fixing it yourself voids the warranty..... And they won't fix it for you either.

And no it wasn't an issue with my case, google it, it was every 3080 ti.

I guess I can finally repaste and repad it myself now that the warranty is done heh.

Next card will def be AMD tho that's for sure.

 

[Shiznizzle]

Can't believe anyone buys founders editions after what they did with the 30 series... All Ti versions had the same cooling as regular versions, my 3080 ti ran at 110°C and being throttled and Nvidia kept saying that's within spec.... Even tho the 3080, 3070, and 3090 all ran much cooler. Oh and fixing it yourself voids the warranty..... And they won't fix it for you either.

And no it wasn't an issue with my case, google it, it was every 3080 ti.

I guess I can finally repaste and repad it myself now that the warranty is done heh.

Next card will def be AMD tho that's for sure.

My next card will be AMD no matter how good or bad it will be. I am switching OS and moving away from the NSA data supplier, after using them for the last 30 years. At the cost of frustrations and things not working, i am moving to linux.

My guess is that windows 7 had some hidden under the hood telemetry going on that they stepped up to overt status in windows 10. They stepped up their data gathering ambitions even more so in windows 11. I also suspect that after conditioning the user to AI they will make Recall mandatory and bake it in just like they did with Edge, which once again is baked. Contrary to prior settlements.

Microsoft were previously sued for their baked in browser advantage. Now they are doing it again with edge. Stating the same BS lies as excuses.

It is bad enough we have to do with google snooping on us no matter where you are on the world wide we since google has its dirty fingers everywhere. Google also quietly removed language yesterday that now means they can develop weapons from their AI.

That's right. Google now wants to use their AI to blow up and test fictional weapons inside their massive data centers for the purpose of testing nukes.

Think i am wearing a tin hat?

Talk to snowdon.